Portable commode and slop-pail combined



mammal. J. W. DREW.

PORTABLE GOMMODE AND SLOP PAIL GOMBI'NED.

Patented Feb. 14,1882.

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JAMES W. DREW, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PORTABLE COMMODE AND SLOP-PAIL COMBINED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,519, dated February 14, 1882. Application filed August 11, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. DREW, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Portable Gommode and Slop-Pail Combined, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a vertical section of my device when in condition to be used as a commode. Fig. 2 is a vertical section when in condition to be used as a slop'pail, the commode portion having been removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section (taken at rightangles to that of Fig. 1) of the commode portion of my device, or that portion not shown in Fig. 2, but included in Fig. 1.

A represents a pail, into which is set the shell or casing B, of the shape shown, and provided with-theflangeB, resting on the top ofthe pail A, and ears B, for lifting it off said pail. Thetop of this shell or casing B is made of the same diameter as the top of the pail, in order that the same cover may fit both.

C is a seat adapted to be used as a commode-seat, and resting on the upper edge of the shell or casing B.

' D is a cover fitting both the shell or casing B and pail A, and provided with the handle D.

E is the valve, hung upon the rod F, whose ends lie loosely in the brackets Gr, secured to the sides of the pail A. This valve E is provided withan upwardly-projecting arm, H, usually made ofa piece of looped wire of the shape shown, and resting at -its upper end against the side of the seat 0. The rod F is placed so as to pass through the valve, not in the exact center, but a little to the rear-i e, nearer the wire loop H--thus producing in the valve a tendency to swing down at its front portion, the said loop preventing such action by resting against the seat.

WVhen the device is to be used as a commode, the cover D is removed and some water poured into the seat, the valve E preventing it from passing down into the pail A. After use the seat 0 is lifted and the pressure against thelooporarmHthusremoved,theresultbeing that the valve E assumes the position shown in broken lines, Fig. 1, and empties the contents into the pail A. The seat 0 is then replaced, and the shell or casing B (containing the seat) removed from the pail, the cover placed upon the pail, as in Fig.2, and the pail with'its contents carried off.

Fig. 3 represents the part removed from Fig. 1, thus leaving the simple pail shown in Fig. 2.

If a slop-pail only is desired, the part shown in Fig. 3 is removed and that shown in Fig. 2 used.

If a commode is desired, the whole device shown in Fig. 1 is used.

The device as shown in Fig. 1 presents the appearance of an ordinary slop-pail, and hence is not offensive to the eye or sense of smell in a chamber or siek-room, and takes up no more room than an ordinary pail.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a combined commode and slop-pail constructed as herein described, the shell or casin g B, adapted toremovablyfitwithin theupperpart ot' the slop-pail A, and provided with the valve E,'having arm H, and pivoted by means of the rod F in brackets G, in combination with the removable seat 0, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES W. DREW.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, J osEPH ISHBAUGH. 

